Quarter 4 Summative Writing Assessment Due Date: May 17th
Prompt: What does it mean to call a place home, and how is home both a place and a state of mind?
Directions: You will write a well-developed paragraph in response to the given prompt. Your response
should incorporate ideas and evidence from the unit texts ( Back to My Own Country; Shooting an
Elephant and My Old Home) and from your own experience.
Checklist

Which best states a theme of "birdfoot's grampa”? a look before you leap. b technology nature. c respect one’s elders. d with age comes wisdom.

Which excerpt from the passage provides evidence of a chronological structure? o “slavery was abolished thirty years before the emancipation proclamation." "the sugar plantation owners were desperate." "so the british owners looked to another part of the empire." "thousands of men and women were given five-year contracts.

How does crane's depiction of the way information was spread in the nineteenth century affect the novel? crane seeks to use the novel as a way to criticize the journalists of the time for how they glorified war as a means of union propaganda. by depicting the extent to which newspapers were circulated, crane seeks to expose the lack of unbiased reporting at the time. by giving newspapers a major role in the novel, crane seeks to make a connection between the increasing role of the military in national affairs and the decline of farming. crane captures the power of journalistic reports at a time when it was the primary means of transmitting information to a broad audience by showing its influence on henry.